Machine shops · Wisconsin

Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.

Belleville, WI · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
23
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 13.3 to the Machine shops BLS benchmark of 3.3 (405% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 332710.

Where Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. falls in its industry

2,037 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #149 safest of 152 Machine shops employers in Wisconsin.

Trend analysis for Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.

Between 2017 and 2023, Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.'s Total Case Rate improved from 28.0 to 7.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 75% decrease across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 7.0, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 28.0, a spread of 21.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. recorded 23 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 23 injuries shown on this page for Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 332710 - Machine shops.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 85,367 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. (this establishment) 13.35 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Machine shops industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 332710
Wisconsin state avg (all industries) 4.92 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 7.0 0.0 3 0 0
2022 7.6 0.0 3 0 0
2021 14.3 2.9 5 0 0
2020 10.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 12.5 0.0 3 0 0
2017 28.0 0.0 6 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Machine shops peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 405% of the Machine shops benchmark, Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Machine shops sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cate Machine and Welding, Inc.'s safety grade?
Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 13.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Machine shops.
How many injuries has Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. reported?
Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. has reported 23 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.